This is a picture of what I'm working on now, which I am knitting in Cascade yarns"fixation", which is a cotton-elastic mix. The yarn has a nice cushy, firm boucle
quality, when knit in rib, and I like the striated colourway, which does stop me from getting bored.
I drop lots of stitches using these 5 bamboo needles, and have added wedges of wine-cork to the ends to help stop this from happening, which it does, a bit.
I am trying to learn to knit well without looking at what I am doing and have taken up READING as I knit. this requires an active foot, to hold the page in place, or one of those plastic hair clips with teeth...
It sounds makeshift, but actually works pretty well, and as I've been ploughing through the novels lately, it allows me to kill too birds with one stone(though multi-tasking seems sort of antithetical to the lesuire activity aesthetic, doesen't it?).
Lately read and enjoyed: Ludmilla's Broken English and Cleaver.